The first cohort of the NUST Global Acceleration Program
(GAP) departed for San Francisco on Sep 13th, 2018. The selected
tech start-ups will be immersed in the Silicon Valley ecosystem for three
months. The cohort comprises of 3 start-ups: Cloudlead, DIY Geeks and
Wrollit.

Cloudlead is
a Karachi-based start-up that offers an SaaS-based account intelligence tool
and data platform for generating and enriching B2B leads.

DIY
Geeks is building a one-stop software platform for all hardware
needs, from the idea stage to building a complete hardware product. It is based
in Lahore.

Islamabad
based Wrollit is an ad-tech start-up which connects owners of
advertising properties with advertisement opportunities through a shared
economic platform.

The
start-ups are accompanied by Mr. Adnan Faisal, GM TIC, who will be coaching
them as well as connecting them with relevant mentors, partners, potential
clients and investors.

The
NUST Global Acceleration Program was launched earlier this year. It aims to
accelerate Pakistan-based start-ups that require international market access
for scaling up by connecting them with the Silicon Valley ecosystem. The
program will select 12 post-revenue product-focused tech start-ups from all
over Pakistan and immerse them in the high tech clusters of Silicon Valley in order
to validate their products in the US market and then seek seed/venture funding
for them.

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National University of Sciences and Technology
H-12, Islamabad, Pakistan